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Ahmad Al-Jallad

Positions

Leiden University, Centre for Linguistics and Institute for Area Studies, Assistant Professor of Ancient Arabia and Arabic and Semitic Linguistics (2012-present); Director of the Arabic language program (2013-2014); Director of the Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia (2015-present).

Oxford University, Khalili Research Center, Research Associate on the Online Corpus of Ancient North Arabian Inscriptions project (2013-present)

University of Pisa, Post-doctoral fellowship on the Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabic Inscriptions project (2012)

Provincia Arabia: Nabataea, the emergence of Arabic as a written language, and Graeco-Arabica. In G. Fisher (ed.), Arabs and Empires before Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 276–373, with Z.T. Fiema, M.C.A. Macdonald, and L. Nehmé.

Invited lectures

2015

To the desert, the night, and horses, I am well known; to the sword and the spear, to the blade and the stone: Writing among Arabia’s pre-Islamic nomads. 10th Zenobia Congress, Amsterdam, Nov 14, 2015 (Plenery)

Reflections on the Arabic of the Petra Papyri and its relationship with the modern Levantine dialects. Syrian and Lebanese Arabic in the 21st Century Continuity | Changes | Perspectives, Vienna, Jun 6, 2013.

Editorships

Digital Archive for the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions, Editorial board member

Digital humanities projects

Founding editor of the Journal Arabian Epigraphic Notes, published by LeiCenSAA.
The Journal establishes a model for publishing without the involvement of a for-profit Academic publisher, utilizing the repository resource of university libraries (in our case, Leiden University). Online epigraphic databases are fully integrated into the citation system, so references are linked to the individual cards of these databases. Verification.

Editor of on the OCIANA open-access database of North Arabian epigraphy. Verification.